The W9000 is for all practical purposes a Radeon HD 7970 when it comes to hardware, but it runs at different clock speeds and has twice as much memory as consumer counterpart.

The FirePro W9000 will provide 3.99TFLOPS of single precision and 0.998 TFLOPS of double precision compute precision, unlike the Radeon HD 7970 (also based on Tahiti XT), which offers 3.79TFLOPS of SP and 0.947TFLOPS of DP performance, respectively.

The Mac Pro is already running on last generation graphics hardware, so we’ll substitute in the superior ATI R9 280X 3GB. Now is a good time to talk about tradeoffs:

99.999999% of people do not need ECC memory in the Mac Pro (and Fire Pros), unless they are processing banking transactions, or flying a mission outside of the ionosphere. For those that do, they should consider the plenitude of little DRAM buffers in their hard disk controllers, motherboards, USB hosts, etc

We’re going to avoid Xeon, because we don’t need ECC. But we can still have hexacores, thanks to the i7-4930K, which actually outperforms the Xeon in the Mac Pro by about 8%.

This would be supposed to render as: Your Text, but it actually renders as Your Text. Ironically enough, you can style a table cell with foreground/background colors and all will be well. To make this work in a span, I emailed myself an Outlook HTML mail composed using their in-client email editor, saved it to HTML, and found the style that works–adding a mso-highlight CSS rule with the background color: